Fifteen years after his death, the man who was a thorn in the side of officials in Nigeria has been honoured by the authorities with whom he tangled. In the 1970s Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat music became the anti-establishment soundtrack of Africa, an anthem for those railing against the many despotic regimes that gripped the continent.
But, 15 years after his death in 1997, the man who was a constant thorn in the side of officials in his native Nigeria has been honoured by the authorities with whom he so often tangled. The Kalakuta Republic commune, a three-storey building on a potholed road that “seceded” from Nigeria, has been turned into a museum with the help of a $250 000 grant from the Lagos government.
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